TWO FACE ROBBERY CHARGES FOR VENICE INCIDENT

TWO MEN ARE BEHIND BARS AFTER ALLEGEDLY JUMPING A MAN OUTSIDE A VENICE GAS STATION LATE SATURDAY NIGHT.  VENICE POLICE SAY THEY RESPONDED TO THE SHELL SERVICE STATION ON US 41 AFTER A DISTURBANCE WAS REPORTED.  THE TWO MEN HAD FLED THE SCENE AND AN OFFICER SPOTTED THE CAR WHICH MATCHED THE DESCRIPTION FROM THE SCENE.  THE VICTIM TOLD POLICE HE HAD GONE INSIDE TO PAY FOR HIS GAS WHEN HE SAW 25 YEAR OLD ALEXANDER NOONE WITH ANOTHER MAN LATER IDENTIFIED AS 33 YEAR OLD JEFFREY ENSMINGER.  THE VICTIM SAID NOONE DEMANDED MONEY HE CLAIMED THE VICTIM OWED HIM, BUT THE VICTIM TOLD NOONE HE MUST HAVE BEEN MISTAKEN.  ENSMINGER THEN CONFRONTED THE VICTIM AND TOLD HIM TO GIVE NOONE THE CASH OR HE WOULD BEAT HIM UP.  AFTER THE VICTIM REFUSED AGAIN, ENSMINGER REPORTEDLY HIT THE VICTIM THREE TIMES ON THE SIDE OF HIS FACE.  THEN AS THE VICTIM TRIED TO CALL POLICE ON HIS CELL PHONE, NOONE HIT HIM IN THE HAND TO TRY AND KNOCK THE PHONE OUT OF IT.  THE TWO THEN LEFT, FOLLOWED BY THE VICTIM.  POLICE STOPPED THE MEN AND CHARGED THEM WITH ROBBERY.  EACH IS BEING HELD ON $50,000 DOLLARS BOND IN THE SARASOTA COUNTY JAIL.